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From: elliston@rob.UUCP ( Keith Elliston)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Info on High-Power rocket launch: August '89 in Colorado.
Summary: I may naive... but...
Message-ID: <327@rob.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 15:52:39 GMT
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In article <Added.4XtQhoy00Ui3AIQk8=@andrew.cmu.edu>, wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI) writes:
> part of the arms-limitation agreements. What better PR for the Army than
> to take one or two of those Pershings to this meet and set them off for
> the entertainment of the attendees? This would also allow the budding
> rocketeers to meet the Soviet observers and some of the actual hands-on
> military missile people, so it would be good "glasnost" PR for the USSR
> and a recruiting aid for the US. 
> 

I may be a little naive, but sending up a pershing missile, even in this
day and age of Glasnost, I would think that the russians would view thi
this as being just a little questionable... I dont think that the powers that be
would be amenable to this sort of experiment.


Keith Elliston

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